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[Letter to] My dear Fanny [manuscript]

by: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879; Villard, Fanny Garrison, 1844-1928, recipient

Publication date: 1874

Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Villard, Fanny Garrison, 1844-1928, Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893, Garrison, Helen Eliza, 1811-1876, Villard, Henry, 1835-1900, Antislavery movements, Abolitionists

Publisher: Roxbury, [Mass.]

Collection: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Item Size: 32.5M

Holograph, signed with initials

William Lloyd Garrison and family are eagerly awaiting news regarding the Villard family's departure from Heidelberg for America. Garrison is glad to learn that the Villard children, Harold and Oswald, are regaining their strength, and he's sorry that Helen is still weak. Even if the children fail to understand English, they "shall have the warmest welcome." Mrs. Helen Eliza Garrison is still troubled by "neuralgic pains in the right breast, side, and shoulder." While William L. Garrison is not a special admirer of General Butler, he thinks he should be judged fairly and given credit for commendable acts